Word: mania
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...While I lived in the United States I was a science-fiction addict myself," confessed Hungarian Author Arthur (Darkness at Noon) Koestler in Harper's Bazaar, "and I am still liable to occasional relapses." But the American mania for "reading about space travel, time travel, martian maidens and extragalactic supermen is habit-forming, like opium, murder thrillers and yoghurt diets ... [A kind of] apocalyptic intuition [that] the human race may be a biological misfit doomed to extinction . . . may be one of the reasons for the sudden interest in life on other stars...
...start at the age of six, he decides in retrospect, when his own father ditched Tom's mother for a mistress. By his 20s, Tom is a self-assured young bachelor-businessman whose only known vice is fondling his secretary. Outside office hours, however, he has a mania for playing the horses, and it is not long before Tom taps the company till. He skips town one jump ahead...
...death of Kathy, his mania has betrayed...
...batch of fuzzy bunny ears to give a touch of costume and started plugging song & dance across the U.S. In cooperation with parents, who regard the dance as relatively sedate, if energetic, disk jockeys and Capitol press-agents have built The Bunny Hop into a minor teen-age mania...
...forward and easily communicative movements. In what seemed an endlessly repetitious opening figuration with gradually heightening harmonic tension, Mr. Des Marais seems to attempt an effect of the mystique. The harmonies grow harsher and harsher, and, after a mordant faster section, culminate in an extremely dissonant ending. Mr. Des Mania's experiment here is one of extended cumulative tension within one movement. I far one, did not find the experience wholly credible. But I look forward to a better appreciation of it after a few rehearings...